The goal of education in each century.
1st century - The cultivation of virtue
5th century - The cultivation of virtue
14th century - The cultivation of virtue
19th century - The cultivation of virtue
21st century - College and Career Readiness 🤦♂️
My 94-year-old grandmother has kept a list of every book she ever read since she was 14 years old. Amazing archive of one person’s mind over nearly a century
Excess sadness is a disease of the mind, but mild sadness is the mark of a well-conditioned mind, according to the present state of life (ST 1-2 59.3ad3).
Y'all, I might be late to the party, but I just stumbled across a library of audio books of primary texts from the early church fathers! And it's awesome.
https://t.co/YhUWgGT59G
"every Christian is called to be an artist in this sense... The Christian's life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world."
Francis Schaeffer
John Webster on Galatians 6:1-3:
"The aim of dealing with sin is not to publicize the faults of others; it’s not to run some terrible, self-righteous campaign; it’s not to make sure that we’re known to be clean by showing how unclean everyone else is."
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end.
By baptizing our children, we are saying that they are not free to choose what to believe.
By catechizing our children, we are telling them what they should believe.